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Our “enlightened” Governor Bev Perdue and state legislators in Raleigh have decreed that as of midnight tonight, smoking will be banned in all restaurants and other places of dining in North Carolina.

This new “law” sucks donkeys balls to no end.

(Longtime readers will recognize that as my personal “worst possible epithet” for something.)

I’m not a smoker. It’s one of the nastiest, filthiest things that a person can do to himself or herself. And believe you me, I’ve seen firsthand the damage that cigarette smoking can do to someone.

Hell, I’ve worked on computers before that were owned by smokers. More than a few had corrosion on the motherboard and other components, from where the tar and nicotine had eaten away at the material. If stuff like circuit boards can have holes melted through them by cigarette smoking, think about what that same crap will do to a person...

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It’s a scene I’ve watched on television damn too many times: a chief executive like a president or governor sitting behind a desk and smugly signing away another right or liberty, with a backdrop made up of the sorry-a$$ed legislative bastitches, also grinning like they’ve just made some legitimate contribution to the betterment of mankind, who passed the effin’ law to begin with.

In today’s case it was Bev Perdue – who I have already declared to be the worst Governor that North Carolina has ever had with just four months into her term – signing the state-wide smoking ban into law.

That dumb blond and the twits who stood next to her today are now patting themselves on the back for their show of force over the common people of this state. Because, let us be candid folks: the legislators in the General Assembly who passed this, by ...

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For the record: I don’t smoke. I don’t recommend anyone taking up smoking. It’s a nasty habit and I’ve seen what it can do to one’s health. It’s not something I’d wish on anybody.

But I’m also of the mind that it’s left to the individual whether or not he or she chooses to smoke. And that means that it should be up to business owners to decide whether or not they allow smoking in places they own like restaurants and bars.

And I also have come to believe that in the few short months since she was sworn in, that Bev Perdue has already become the worst Governor that I have ever seen North Carolina have in my lifetime. She’s already “effed”-up our educational budget bigtime. Now this…

“An important and historic day for North Carolina.” That’s what Perdue declared today as she announced she would immediately sign ...

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Alan Horn, head of the movie studio at Warner Brothers, demanded that the smoking be cut out of the film adaptation of Watchmen to such an extent that Laurie won’t be enjoying that weird but neat-looking pipe of hers. According to director Zack Snyder, it was either remove the smoking or “the movie wouldn’t have been made, literally.” Although the Comedian will still be puffing his cigars because he was deemed “evil” enough.

So let me get this straight: Watchmen is a story that includes a hero who is racist and anti-black (Captain Metropolis), another who speaks favorably of Hitler (Hooded Justice), features a brutal rape scene, shows a little girl murdered then cut to pieces and fed to dogs, has a main character who is struggling with sexual dysfunction, and maybe a dozen other very bad images and concepts…

…and yet showing a grown woman smoking is supposed to ...

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